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it's the triumphs that are redemptive at the end of the day and it's important after to read >> john avlon, errol louis author of a deadline artists scandals, tragedies and triumphs. thank you very much. >> i can't count the times that americans say that we are the best country in the world. with a marvelously stupid thing to say. of all the countries in the wo
it's the triumphs that are redemptive at the end of the day and it's important after to read >> john avlon, errol louis author of a deadline artists scandals, tragedies and triumphs. thank you very much. >> i can't count the times that americans say that we are the best country in the world. with a marvelously stupid thing to say. of all the countries in the wo
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president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state, but the way the united states is in or on the road because of the racism going on that people would hear about and read about. and the fact that there seem to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether it is one chain or some discrimination taking place in the country said the idea was that eisenhower said he was going to ask congress to save the civil rights commission, which would put the facts on top of the table. i'm told by one of the people at the meeting that he finds the table and said they're going to put the facts on top of the table. commissions as we know, sometimes sad because there's a tough problem that people don't want to do anything about it. they get a report and it goes away. this commission was supposed to fit the facts on the table and its future would depend on how aggressive it was some of the public thought about what they were doing. >> host: this is initially a tent or a commission? >> guest: . it is to and it came before the crisis and the resultant deferment go
president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state, but the way the united states is in or on the road because of the racism going on that people would hear about and read about. and the fact that there seem to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether it is one chain or some discrimination taking place in the country said the idea was that eisenhower said he was going to ask congress to save the civil rights commission, which would put the facts...
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i am not john condon. i'm not a guy who believes we should have zero population. bring it on. let's head to .2 million people coming in every year but the thing about who is actually coming in. i think when you're looking at the way the conversation is going when you look at the fact that the high-skilled piece is not a prominent part of the gang of eight framework they agricultural is piece is a big part of grammar. let's be more skeptical. another thing to think about briefly and i will finish is delegation. the one thing we are talking about now is this idea that you should staple of visa to -- what about the foreign stem degree that is of high-quality? or what about the fact that you are saying that colleges and universities are delegating the authority to determine our immigration policy. what if i'm about to flunk out of my masters program and you have got to help me. how about a kick that? a little silly to think about the delegation of all these clichÉs we are pursuing are actually kind of silly and poorly examined. if we rush headlong into immigration reform think ab
i am not john condon. i'm not a guy who believes we should have zero population. bring it on. let's head to .2 million people coming in every year but the thing about who is actually coming in. i think when you're looking at the way the conversation is going when you look at the fact that the high-skilled piece is not a prominent part of the gang of eight framework they agricultural is piece is a big part of grammar. let's be more skeptical. another thing to think about briefly and i will...
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c-span: who is john weisman, what is his background? >> guest: he used to be working for tv guide before -- he had written several novels, and i like him very much personally, and i think he is a fantastic writer, and to be interested in the book. i think came out a very good book, in my opinion. c-span: did the two of you agree politically, was that necessary? >> guest: i don't think that it would be necessary. it was just a matter of putting my story in the book, as truthfully as possible and as accurate as possible, and i think he has done that. c-span: where were you born? >> guest: i was born in cuba. c-span: where? >> guest: i was born actually in havana, but i claimed my home town to be san despiritas, which i was just taken by -- i want to say by mistake, but i was taken to havana because i came in a position that needed a more specialized doctor, so i was born in havana, but i consider myself a spiritiano from san despiritas, where i was raised. c-span: you were born in 1941? >> guest: 1941. c-span: what were your parents like?
c-span: who is john weisman, what is his background? >> guest: he used to be working for tv guide before -- he had written several novels, and i like him very much personally, and i think he is a fantastic writer, and to be interested in the book. i think came out a very good book, in my opinion. c-span: did the two of you agree politically, was that necessary? >> guest: i don't think that it would be necessary. it was just a matter of putting my story in the book, as truthfully as...
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do you train your officers to kill john blackmails? asked the question? associate an academy for six months? to flash pictures and say when you see this face, shoot. so we really have to start to answer the questions so we can move on and begin to move things around as far as recruiting and training retention for our organization. the study is in your packet. it happened in denver. he paid police officers. if you cost to participate and be honest you have to feed them and you have to pay them, so we did that. one of the things that happen as we can. community to police officers and one of the reasons we decided to get police officers from the community at large. as a citizen before the police department come as we want to make sure we make comparisons of his coming into the department and do they have the same effect to behavior? this is a simulated event, so there's a computer screen than you have images of white nails flashing before you. some armed, some are not. some had a weapon, some have cell phones, some have scissors. in the same series with lack
do you train your officers to kill john blackmails? asked the question? associate an academy for six months? to flash pictures and say when you see this face, shoot. so we really have to start to answer the questions so we can move on and begin to move things around as far as recruiting and training retention for our organization. the study is in your packet. it happened in denver. he paid police officers. if you cost to participate and be honest you have to feed them and you have to pay them,...
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for example, john quip si adams' wife, she was a very private woman, and they had a poor marriage. they fought a lot. and she kind of blamed her husband for some problems the children had. one of the kids may have committed suicide or may have been drunk and fallen off a boat and drowned, we're not sure. so she blamed him and was angry about that. supreme court justices wrestled with great decisions in history, do i do what's right, or do i do what i think is popular? and sometimes they did what's right, sometimes they didn't from, you know, plessy v. ferguson to dred scott and other cases to, you know, i think more recently with citizens united. so members of congress, we're dealing with conflicts of interest, we're dealing with lobbyists. the fantastic new spielberg movie, "lincoln," which is spot on, it shows lincoln essentially bribing unsavory members of congress to get votes, but lincoln was willing to do business with these folks to get the 13th amendment passed in 1865 to end slavery. what's the moral? who among us would not stoop to end this horrible abomination? so lobbyi
for example, john quip si adams' wife, she was a very private woman, and they had a poor marriage. they fought a lot. and she kind of blamed her husband for some problems the children had. one of the kids may have committed suicide or may have been drunk and fallen off a boat and drowned, we're not sure. so she blamed him and was angry about that. supreme court justices wrestled with great decisions in history, do i do what's right, or do i do what i think is popular? and sometimes they did...
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topographical core centum expedition under john c. fremont to explore the west, they needed a guide and free but realized he's not mended the west better than anyone. person acquitted himself very well on expeditions. he sees many people's lives and kept the expedition on track. so he became in fremont's reports, best-selling books. carson becomes kind of a hero in these stories. but no one could seem to find this guide because he was living in new mexico and is never coming back east. so he was kind of this mistake care or that people wanted to know a little bit more about. and so, when the blood and thunder books became more and more famous, more and more popular comic kit carson was often the central character in the stories. these authors back east who wrote these terrible stories, i would tear you to read them actually. they are not good in terms of literature, but these authors really never made an attempt to understand who the real kit carson was. they didn't get his consent to use his name. kit carson didn't make any money off
topographical core centum expedition under john c. fremont to explore the west, they needed a guide and free but realized he's not mended the west better than anyone. person acquitted himself very well on expeditions. he sees many people's lives and kept the expedition on track. so he became in fremont's reports, best-selling books. carson becomes kind of a hero in these stories. but no one could seem to find this guide because he was living in new mexico and is never coming back east. so he...
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topographical course sent an expedition under john c. fremont to explore the west they needed a guide and fremont realize that these mountain men knew the west better than anyone so he hired kit carson as a guide. carson acquitted himself himself very well on these expeditions. had he saved many people's lives and kept the expedition on track and so he became in fremont's report which became a best-selling book, carson becomes kind of the hero in the stories. but no one could seem to find this guy because he was living in mexico and was never coming back each so he was kind of this mythic character that people wanted to know a little bit more about. and so, when the "blood and thunder" looks became more popular kit carson was often the central character in the stories. these authors back east to read these terrible stories -- i would dare you to read them actually. they are not good in terms of literature but these authors never really made any attempt to understand who the real kit carson was. they didn't give his consent to use his nam
topographical course sent an expedition under john c. fremont to explore the west they needed a guide and fremont realize that these mountain men knew the west better than anyone so he hired kit carson as a guide. carson acquitted himself himself very well on these expeditions. had he saved many people's lives and kept the expedition on track and so he became in fremont's report which became a best-selling book, carson becomes kind of the hero in the stories. but no one could seem to find this...
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[applause] >> thank you, john. the real id program sprang from the recommendation of the national commission on terrorist attacks upon the united states. the commission to 18 of the 9/11 hijackers had 30 ids between them including six that were used on the morning of the attack. the commission called on the federal government to set standards for issuance of birth certificates and secure identification such as driver's licenses. recognizing that sources of identification are the last opportunity for people -- to help halt terrorist activities. the real id act is not just an important tool for halting terrorist activity and security. it's also an important tool for helping to combat fraud and identity theft. passed in 2005 real id act sets voluntary standards for the states to meet regarding idt duties. these include facial recognition capture, improved document in -- document often takes years of the come increased card security and enhanced issuer integrity and lawful status checks. by meeting the standards state
[applause] >> thank you, john. the real id program sprang from the recommendation of the national commission on terrorist attacks upon the united states. the commission to 18 of the 9/11 hijackers had 30 ids between them including six that were used on the morning of the attack. the commission called on the federal government to set standards for issuance of birth certificates and secure identification such as driver's licenses. recognizing that sources of identification are the last...
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. >> john with washington auto show. a couple years ago at our show, mike jackson -- thank you. mike jackson, the ceo of automation declared what he called a moment of truth. i think we've all been talking about both in the first panel and the second panel today. and a moment of truth is as he describes it is, when the consumer comes into the showroom floor and don chalmers when his analogy earlier mentioned this, the greenest of the green person who wants to be a patriot, wants to get us off of the petroleum standard looks at the combustion engine, look at the alternative it in vehicle, and when they see the price difference, for just being green, remembers that he's a capitalist and goes for the cheaper vehicle. do any of you, as manufacturers, i recognize you're not economists, have any sort of percentage of fleet penetration where all of the alternative energy products kind of have a watershed moment where your costs are able to b be afraid sh as they come more in line with combustion engines, and that's the point at which all of these technologies become more viable? >> tha
. >> john with washington auto show. a couple years ago at our show, mike jackson -- thank you. mike jackson, the ceo of automation declared what he called a moment of truth. i think we've all been talking about both in the first panel and the second panel today. and a moment of truth is as he describes it is, when the consumer comes into the showroom floor and don chalmers when his analogy earlier mentioned this, the greenest of the green person who wants to be a patriot, wants to get us...
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. >> historian who on julia tyler, who married president john tyler while he was in office after his first wife passed away. c-span's original music series, first ladies influence in image, their public and private lives, interests and their influence on the president reduced with the white house historical association. season one begins presidents' day february 18 at 9 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> from almost the founding you would see the fertility rates decline. and by the time we hit the second world war we were right around 2.1, 2.2. van after the first world war, the second world war, sorry, we had the only major instance of fertility rate, that's the baby boom. that's the term which hates us. it really was a remarkable mode because not only the fertility rate quite high, as high as 3.7 i think for white americans and basically 3.9 for black americans to not only did it jump up and stay there for an entire generation. it was a long lasting effect. people change the way they lived for a generation. by 1970 that moment had ended. we saw not
. >> historian who on julia tyler, who married president john tyler while he was in office after his first wife passed away. c-span's original music series, first ladies influence in image, their public and private lives, interests and their influence on the president reduced with the white house historical association. season one begins presidents' day february 18 at 9 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> from almost the founding you would see the...
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and tomorrow senators will take up the confirmation vote of the nomination of massachusetts senator john kerry to be the next secretary of state. live coverage here on c-span the. c-span2. a bipartisan group of senators today will unveil immigration proposals at a news conference at 2:30 eastern with live coverage on c-span. this is ahead of a speech president obama will give on immigration policy tomorrow in las vegas. and wanted to tell you a little bit more about some of the new members of the 113th congress from massachusetts. democratic elizabeth warren, who defeated incumbent senator scott brown, was an early advocate for the formation of the consumer financial protection bureau and is the first woman to represent massachusetts in the senate. over in the house, joseph kennedy will represent the state's 4th district. he's the grandson of former u.s. attorney general and presidential nominee robert f. kennedy. ♪ ♪ >> if we turn away from the needs of others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. >> the white house is a bully pulpit, and you
and tomorrow senators will take up the confirmation vote of the nomination of massachusetts senator john kerry to be the next secretary of state. live coverage here on c-span the. c-span2. a bipartisan group of senators today will unveil immigration proposals at a news conference at 2:30 eastern with live coverage on c-span. this is ahead of a speech president obama will give on immigration policy tomorrow in las vegas. and wanted to tell you a little bit more about some of the new members of...